HUMAN EYE & THE COLOURFUL WORLD

Ex -5: 45 marks
1. Define the term power of accommodation. Write the modification in the curvature of
the eye lens which enables us to see the nearby objects clearly? (Delhi 2019) (3)

2. Trace the sequence of events which occur when a bright light is focused on your
eyes. (Delhi 2019) (3)

3. Explain why the image distance in the eye does not change when we change the
distance of an object from the eye? (Delhi 2017) (2)

4. Write the function of each of the following parts of human eye: (2/5, 2018, Delhi
2016) (4)
(i) Cornea
(ii) Iris
(iii) Crystalline lens
(iv) Ciliary muscles

5. Answer the following: ((3)

(a) List two causes of hypermetropia.
(b) Draw ray diagrams showing
(i) a hypermetropic eye and
(ii) its correction using suitable optical device. (2020)

6. (a) A person is suffering from both myopia and hypermetropia.(2)

(i) What kind of lenses can correct this defect?
(ii) How are these lenses prepared?
(b) A person needs a lens of power +3 D for correcting his near vision and -3 D for
correcting his distant vision. Calculate the focal lengths of the lenses required to
correct these defects. (2020) (2)

7. What eye defect is myopia? Describe with a neat diagram how this defect of vision
can be corrected by using a suitable lens. (AI 2011) (3)

8. A student is unable to see clearly the words written on the black board placed at a
distance of approximately 3 m from him. Name the defect of vision the boy is
suffering from. State the possible causes of this defect and explain the method of
correcting it. (2018) (3)

9. Draw a ray diagram to show the refraction of light through a glass prism. Mark on it
(a) the incident ray, (b) the emergent ray and (c) the angle of deviation. (AI 2011) (3)

10. Draw a labelled diagram to explain the formation of a rainbow in the sky. (Foreign
2015) (2)

11. How will you use two identical glass prisms so that a narrow beam of white light
incident on one prism emerges out of the second prism as white light? Draw and
 label the ray diagram. (2020) (3)

12. Differentiate between a glass slab and a glass prism. What happens when a narrow
beam of
(i) a monochromatic light and (ii) white light passes through (a) glass slab and (b)
glass prism? (2020) (4)

13. Explain in brief the reason for each of the following: (6)
a. Advanced sun-rise
b. Delayed sun-set(Foreign 2016)
c. Stars appear to twinkle? Explain. (Foreign 2015)
d. Planets do not twinkle. (Foreign 2015)
e. Tyndall effect
f. Colour of clear sky blue? (Foreign 2011)

14. The sky appears dark to passengers flying at very high altitudes mainly because (1)
(a) Scattering of light is not enough at such heights.
(b) There is no atmosphere at great heights.
(c) The size of molecules is smaller than the wavelength of visible light.
(d) The light gets scattered towards the earth. (2020)

15. Consider the following reasons for the reddish appearance of the sun at the sunrise or
the sunset: (2)
(A) Light from the sun near the horizon passes through thinner layers of air.
(B) Light from the sun covers larger distance of the earth’s atmosphere before
reaching our eyes.
(C) Near the horizon, most of the blue light and shorter wavelengths are scattered
away by the particles.
(D) Light from the sun near the horizon passes through thicker layers of air.
The correct reasons are
(a) A and C only
(b) B, C and D
(c) A and B only
(d) C and D only (2020)